IMAGES from Day 6 of the 2023 US Open on Saturday.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc qualified fourth with Mexican Sergio Perez, Verstappen's closest title rival and team mate but a massive 151 points adrift after 15 of 22 rounds, fifth and 0.773 off his team mate's pace.
Images from Day 8 of the 2024 French Open at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Dorival Junior led Flamengo to the Copa Libertadores title and the Brazilian Cup in 2022 before joining Sao Paulo.
The Netherlands and Sweden marched into the quarter-finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup.
IMAGES from Day 4 of the French Open played at Roland Garros on Wednesday
Noah Lyles is the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to win the sprint double.
Mongolia can take a lifetime to happen but rewards the intrepid traveller with enduring memories of a surreal, delightful land.
American Rai Benjamin got the track programme off to a roaring start as he stunned world record-holder Karsten Warholm in the 400 metres hurdles.
Fans crowded into plazas to watch the game on giant screens, cheering when Messi scored the opening goal -- a penalty -- but groaning and slowly going silent as Saudi Arabia pulled two quick goals back in the second half.
'The fact that India is multilingual and the kids grow up already bilingual or trilingual so learning another language or learning other spelling patterns is not really that hard.'
Local star D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi played out a draw in the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters Chess Championship 2023 in Chennai on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
American Katie Moon and Australia's Nina Kennedy decided to share the women's pole vault gold medal in another magical moment at the World Athletics Championships.
With the American men experiencing their longest US Open title drought in the Open era, Venus Williams led the American charge into round two on Monday with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 win over Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia.
Argentina captain Lionel Messi is not thinking about his international future beyond next year's Copa America, where he will try to lead the country to a second successive continental title at the tournament in the United States.
Iga Swiatek used an outfit change to help her reset after a poor start and beat China's Zheng Qinwen.
Pragg, Gujrathi out of contention
IMAGES from Serie A matches played on Saturday.
Politics infused the event in Doha where Belarusian swimmers competed as neutrals due to restrictions imposed on their athletes, and Russia's, stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- which Moscow called a "special military operation".
Another game to end through repetition of moves was between Gukesh and Gujrathi.
Religion and economic barriers continue to define love in modern India, discovers Preshth Bhardwaj.
IMAGES from matches on Day 4 of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York on Thursday.
Sangeeta Phogat, one of the six wrestlers who protested against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh at Jantar Mantar, on Saturday won a bronze medal in the non-Olympic 59kg category.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
A summary of sports events and persons in the news on Saturday.
Images from Day 5 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
Hurkacz, Swiatek win as Poland march into United Cup final
IMAGES from Day 10 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Tuesday.
Europe resisted a fierce American fightback to secure the four points required to reclaim the Ryder Cup
World No 1 Iga Swiatek overcame a strong early challenge from former champion Sofia Kenin to reach the second round of the Australian Open
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
Teen chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa's mother, R Nagalakshmi said on Friday she was elated to see her son seal a berth in the Candidates Tournament, adding the 18-year-old has a "long way to go" in the sport.
Keys will next face 10th seed Sloane Stephens, nine months after her compatriot beat her in the US Open final
A summary of Saturday's action in the FIFA women's World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao delivered a dominant performance to earn a unanimous decision victory over Adrien Broner on Saturday in Las Vegas.
A dialed-in Novak Djokovic disconnected Ben Shelton's dream US Open run in the semi-finals on Friday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Naomi Osaka said she had spent a lot of time during the coronavirus shutdown thinking about how she wanted to approach her tennis.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa went down to World No 1 Magnus Carlsen in the FIDE Chess World Cup final, in Baku, on Thursday.
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